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Lawson, C. "W.G. Sebald's Luftkrieg und Literatur : German literature and the allied bombings of German cities in World War II." Thesis, Nottingham Trent University, 2010. http://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/109/.

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This thesis is a critical analysis of W.G. Sebald‘s Luftkrieg und Literatur (On the Natural History of Destruction) and its reception in the German media and in scholarship. Sebald‘s essay caused a public debate in 1997 over the ethical implications of a cultural memory of the Allied bombings of German cities in the Second World War. Since then, the essay has come to be understood as a foundational moment in the discourse surrounding 'German victimhood' in representations of the bombings and the expulsions of ethnic Germans from the Eastern territories. The thesis argues that Sebald‘s essay has been widely mis-read and mis-appropriated in the service of the discourse. Re-inscribing the essay into the aesthetic and philosophical framework of Sebald‘s wider prose oeuvre, from which it is frequently divorced in scholarship, it argues that the text is exemplary of Sebald‘s creation of an archive of 'natural history' with regard to the representation of past catastrophes. Situating the essay within a 20th century tradition of German thinking on history and the enlightenment that informs Sebald‘s thought, I use this thick contextualisation to argue that Sebald‘s fascination with the bombings and the ruined cities provides an intersection between his academic and aesthetic practice, offering important insights into his natural historical gaze, archival technique and preoccupation with the catastrophic history of his country of origin. With this examination of an important but often mis-understood text, the thesis aims to enrich the field of memory studies in relation to post-reunification Germany and correct an oversight in the recent history of cultural memory regarding the Nazi past. It also aims to fill a gap in the scholarship on W.G. Sebald, a writer who has increasingly been understood as one of the most significant in the recent German canon, by reinscribing Luftkrieg und Literatur into his body of work.

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Bildhauer, Bettina Maria Elisabeth. "Blood in thirteenth-century German literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.288655.

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Brice, James Stuart. "German Holocaust Literature: Trends and Tendencies." [S.l. : s.n.], 2005. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:352-opus-58461.

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Sharman, Gundula-Maria. "Twentieth-century reworkings of German literature." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2000. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk/R?func=search-advanced-go&find_code1=WSN&request1=AAIU122777.

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No work of art stands in isolation. In one way or another it will have evolved from a form that has been created before, and likewise, it may itself have an influence on future developments and trends in a given genre. The literary reworking distinguishes itself by referring openly and explicitly to a previous <I>fictional</I> model, thus encouraging the reader to draw comparisons and to note contrasts between the model and the reworking. The investigation concentrates on two examples, from each genre, the drama, the novella and the novel. Reworkings of myths and legendary or historical characters have been excluded. Subject of the thesis is (a) an examination of how this link between model and reworking has been established, and (b) the effect the suggested presence of the literary model has on the interpretation of the reworking. With regard to (a) it has been found that each respective writer employs different narrative techniques to establish the link between model and reworking which has been summarized thus: - allusion to classicism: Schiller: <I>Die Jungfrau von Orleans</I> and Brecht: <I>Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe</I>; - ironic reproduction: Hebbel: <I>Maria Magdalena</I> and Franz Xaver Kroetz: <I>Maria Magdalena</I>; - fragmentation: Thomas Mann: <I>Der Tod in Venedig</I> and Wolfgang Koeppen: <I>Der Tod in Rom</I>; - integration: Georg Büchner: <I>Lenz</I> and Peter Schneider: <I>Lenz</I>; - quotation: Goethe: <I>Die Leiden des jungen Werther </I>and Ulrich Plenzdorf: <I>Die neuen Leiden de jungen W</I>.; - character constellation: Goethe: <I>Die Wahlverwandstschaften </I>and John Banville: <I>The Newton Letter</I> With regard to (b) the effect of the reworking when read in conjunction with its literary model is strikingly different in each case, but common to all reworkings is a gain in historical depth, and in each case new themes and issues arise which are not immediately apparent when the reworking is considered on its own.

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Hagen, Alexandra S. "Rhetoric of Ruin: 9/11 in German Literature, Film and Culture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1470672178.

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Sampath, Ursula. "Kaspar Hauser in twentieth-century German literature." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.293681.

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Weber, Alexander. "Günter Grass's use of German Baroque literature." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239093.

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Lechner, Judith. "Matters of Recognition in Contemporary German Literature." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/19680.

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This dissertation deals with current political immigration debates, the conversations about the philosophical concept of recognition, and intercultural encounters in contemporary German literature. By reading contemporary literature in connection with philosophical, psychological, and theoretical works, new problem areas of the liberal promise of recognition become visible. Tied to assumptions of cultural essentialism, language use, and prejudice, one of the main findings of this work is how the recognition process is closely tied to narrative. Particularly within developmental psychology it is often argued that we learn and come to terms with ourselves through narrative. The chosen literary encounters written by Alev Tekinay, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Maxim Biller, Rafael Seligmann, and Finn-Ole Heinrich magnify this particular human experience on an aesthetic level and dismantle “mechanisms of recognition,” particularly three aspects illustrating the recognition process: the role of the narrator and his or her description of the characters, the construction of family bonds within the texts, and the linguistic and cultural practice of naming with all of its connotations. Within the chosen texts there is no unified depiction of the recognition process, but rather the texts elucidate a multidimensionality of this concept, tying it closely to the political, social, and aesthetic sphere. In this context the analysis brings to light that the notion of “authenticity” crucially informs recognition as well as the circumstances of a power imbalance that dominates the process. My analysis shows that contrary to popular assumptions in philosophical and political debates, the concept of recognition turns out to be rather limiting instead of liberating.

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Hutfilz, William George. "Pastoral politics : German pastoral literature and court culture, 1200-1800 /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9950.

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Garforth, Julian Alexander. "Samuel Beckett in Germany : his work in the German theatre." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.340433.

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Weber, Alexander. "Günter Grass's use of baroque literature." Leeds : W. S. Maney, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb36706760n.

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Horton, Aaron Dennis. "Catastrophe and Identity in Post-War German Literature." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2005. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1061.

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The purpose of this study is to examine selected German literature dealing with issues of history and identity in light of the catastrophic reshaping of society after World War II and reunification. The research process will involve an examination of selected authors and their works that are most relevant to the topic. In order to provide a clear understanding not only of important literary themes but also of the appropriate historical context, attention will be devoted to providing biographical information in addition to critical literary analysis. Because this study is primarily historical in nature, context is important for determining a given author's possible motives in writing. The research will not only provide a better understanding of how history and identity have been addressed in modern German literature, identifying common and recurring themes in significant periods, but also demonstrate the value of using fiction in historical research.

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Mastag, Horst Dieter. "The transformations of Job in modern German literature." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/30647.

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In modern times German authors have made ample use of the Job-theme. The study examines the transformations that the story of Job has undergone in German narrative and dramatic works from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Der neue Hiob (1878) to Fritz Zorn's Mars (1977). The most striking feature of these works lies in their diverse characterization of the Job-figure. As a mythical figure he remains synonymous with the sufferer, but he may be characterized as patient or impatient, humble or arrogant, innocent or guilty, rich or poor, courageous or cowardly; he may be a Jew or a Christian, a Nazi or an anti-Nazi, a believer or an agnostic. The authors have retained most of the characters included in the Old Testament story. The Job-figure usually has a wife (who doubts and despises God), a number of children (who die in an impending disaster), and several friends (who accuse him of wrong-doing). Concerning the plot, most writers have excluded any prologue in heaven. The suffering of the Job-figure (usually brought on by the loss of loved ones, by physical pain and by mental agony) is always central to the story. More often than not, however, the modern Job-figure exhibits a form of impatience and impiety once misfortune has struck. A theophany (literal confrontation with God) does not occur, but a divine agent may be provided in the form of a dream or a vision, or indirectly by nature. An epilogue (the restoration of Job's health, possessions and children) is usually omitted, but some authors imply a renewal of Job, so as to suggest a purpose for and a hope after his arduous trials.<br>Arts, Faculty of<br>Central Eastern Northern European Studies, Department of<br>Graduate

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Bond, D. G. "German history and German identity : Uwe Johnson's Jahrestage." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.304881.

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Zimmerman, Aine K. "Estranged Bedfellows: German-Jewish Love Stories in Contemporary German Literature and Film." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1218765995.

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Thesis (Ph. D. )--University of Cincinnati, 2008.<br>Advisors: Dr. Katharina Gerstenberger (Committee Chair), Dr. Todd Herzog (Committee Member), Dr. Sara Friedrichsmeyer (Committee Member) Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Oct. 4, 2008). Includes abstract. Keywords: German-Jewish relations; German-Jewish love stories; intercultural relationships; Holocaust studies; Holocaust legacy; normalization; contemporary German literature; contemporary German film; negative symbiosis Includes bibliographical references.

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Sabel, Barbara. "Toleranzdenken in mittelhochdeutscher Literatur." Wiesbaden : Reichert, 2003. http://books.google.com/books?id=zQFcAAAAMAAJ.

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Traylor, Sarah Kay. "Sacred Journeys in a Secular Age: Pilgrimage in Contemporary German Literature." The Ohio State University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1562757919972067.

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Albu, Stefana Maria. "What is German? : migrating identities in Turkish-German literature : an analysis of cultural Influences on German national identity /." Norton, Mass. : Wheaton College, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10090/15117.

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Caldwell, David. "German documentary prose of the 1970s /." The Ohio State University, 1986. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487266691095606.

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Hamilton, Elizabeth C. "Disabling discourses in German literature from lessing to grass /." The Ohio State University, 1998. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487949150070443.

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Scheidweiler, Alexander. "Maler, Monstren, Muschelwerk Wandlungen des Grotesken in Literatur und Kunsttheorie des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts." Würzburg Königshausen & Neumann, 2009. http://d-nb.info/991843312/04.

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Shahan, Cyrus Langston Richard. "Punk poetics and West German literature of the eighties." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1655.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Sep. 16, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures." Discipline: Germanic Languages; Department/School: Germanic Languages.

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Lueckel, Wolfgang. "Atomic Apocalypse - 'Nuclear Fiction' in German Literature and Culture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1281459381.

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Gallagher, Kaleen. "Female suicide in German literature and film since 1955." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709204.

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Ritchie, Amanda Ross. "Margaret Fuller and the politics of German sensibility." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/289215.

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This study seeks to accomplish two goals. First, it will reestablish Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) as America's first important interpreter of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (1749-1832), Germany's best-known lyric poet. The study includes full transcription and complete annotation of Fuller's Reading Journal O manuscript detailing the experimental series of Conversations on Goethe that Fuller conducted in the spring or summer of 1839. The manuscript suggests that Fuller was an expert on all of Goethe's works, not just on his literary oeuvre. The experimental series of Conversations on Goethe was a prototype for the Boston Conversations for Women, those watershed events in the history of the American women's movement that Fuller envisioned and then carried out between the fall of 1839, and the winter of 1844. Second, this study will examine Fuller's debt to German sensibility as she found it in Goethe and other German writers of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Fuller learned Innerlichkeit, inwardness, and Gelassenheit, or serenity, from her long study of German letters. Her incorporation of German sensibility was useful to her in two ways. First, German sensibility was important to Fuller's unique pedagogical philosophy. By encouraging her students to practice German sensibility, Fuller taught them how to educate themselves through their own initiatives. Second, German sensibility facilitated Fuller's critical stance, thereby aiding in the development of her feminism. Fuller's discussion of Iphigenia, the heroine of Goethe's classical play called Iphigenia at Tauris, displays the extent of her reliance on German sensibility in creating her most insightful feminist writings. Fuller wrote about Goethe's Iphigenia in the July 1841 issue of the transcendentalist journal called the Dial. Her remarks a there prove that her feminism was fully developed two years before she wrote "The Great Lawsuit: Man vs. Men, Woman vs. Women," the essay she expanded and later published as Woman in the Nineteenth Century.

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Tomlinson, Dennis Churchill. "Nature and technology in GDR literature." Thesis, University of Bath, 1993. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.332289.

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Spencer, Andrew John. "Of literature and legend : German writers and the bombing of Dresden." Connect to resource, 1992. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1240658983.

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Zenk, Volker. "Innere Forschungsreisen literarischer Exotismus in Deutschland zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts /." Oldenburg : Igel Verlag Wissenschaft, 2003. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/53155073.html.

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Thelen, Christian. "Das Dichtergebet in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters." Berlin ; New York : W. De Gruyter, 1989. http://books.google.com/books?id=D-1bAAAAMAAJ.

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Tallman, Brittany Ann. "The Question of Turkish Integration in the Context of German Identity Conceptions." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1300456390.

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Lueckel, Wolfgang. "“Penile Politics” Sexuality and America in Thomas Brussig’s Novel Helden wie wir." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1107447692.

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Swisher, Michael James. "Wood and water terminology in Old High German literature : a contribution to the study of Old High German nature vocabulary /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487329662148213.

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Zimmermann, Christian von. "Biographische Anthropologie : Menschenbilder in lebensgeschichtlicher Darstellung (1830-1940) /." Berlin [u.a.] : de Gruyter, 2006. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2815355&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Williams, Scott George. ""Antikerezeption" in German-language literature after 1945 : the Roman tradition /." Digital version accessible at:, 1999. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/main.

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Schaad, Eric Joseph. "The romantic outlaw narrative /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/6614.

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Plouffe, Bruce. "The post-war novella in German language literature : an analysis." Thesis, McGill University, 1990. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=74297.

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This study examines the interpretive possibilities in the shorter fiction of Post-War German literature. The corpus includes works by Rolf Hochhuth, Friedrich Durrenmatt and Martin Walser. The historical framework of the theory of the novella and short story provides a basis for a discussion of genre, extended to include the coordinates of metaphor and metonymy. With the exception of one text designated as a novel, these works demonstrate interlocking and restricted motif complexes, repetitive and parallel structure and the integration of most narrative components. They project a tenor of hermetic plurality from a vehicle of abbreviated and truncated referential discourse. They use myth and intertextuality to show general principles to be extrapolated from specific contexts. Metafiction complements the theme of the subject not at one with itself. A partial resolution to the incertitude of existence, rendered according to Freud and Lacan, is offered through the emerging role of women as a stabilizing factor.

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Hoelscher-Whiting, Susanne Helene. "Berlin identities : literature and film in the new German capital /." For electronic version search Digital dissertations database. Restricted to UC campuses. Access is free to UC campus dissertations, 2005. http://uclibs.org/PID/11984.

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Henry, April Lynn Starkey Kathryn. "The female lament agency and gender in medieval German literature /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1959.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Dec. 11, 2008). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Germanic Languages." Discipline: Germanic Languages; Department/School: Germanic Languages.

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Heidt, Todd W. "Modernity in Word and Image: Narrative Literature and Film in Weimar Germany." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1265989144.

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Schmitt, Franziska. ""Method in the fragments" fragmentarische Strategien in der englischen und deutschen Romantik." Trier WVT, Wiss. Verl. Trier, 2005. http://deposit.ddb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2663927&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.

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Cornel, Christian. "East German broadcasting and social unification." Thesis, Goldsmiths College (University of London), 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.252021.

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Mercuri, Maria Novella. "Edith Wharton's relationship to German literature : a study of creative affinity." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286336.

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Wode, Kai. ""Sich selbst das Leben nehmen" : Versuch einer Typologie des Suizidanten anhand deutschsprachiger Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts." Hannover-Laatzen Wehrhahn, 2007. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2859748&prov=M&dokv̲ar=1&doke̲xt=htm.

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Hauser, Claudia. "Politiken des Wahnsinns weibliche Psychopathologie in Texten deutscher Autorinnen zwischen Spätaufklärung und Fin de siecle /." Hildesheim : Olms, 2007. http://books.google.com/books?id=WuFmAAAAMAAJ.

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Haman, Brian. "Perpetuum mobile? : literature, philosophy, and the journey in German culture around 1800." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/55510/.

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Scholarly interest in travel literature has increased substantially in recent years. However, there has been a lack of sustained, cohesive commentary on the journey motif in German Romantic culture, particularly its origins and manifestations in literature and philosophy. My doctoral research fills this gap through a philosophically- and historically-informed reading of German Romanticism. The thesis examines 1) the paradigmatic template of the literary journey established by Goethe in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, 2) metaphors of movement and mobility within the Idealist philosophy of Kant and Fichte and their role, 3) the manner in which these metaphors migrate into the theoretical and prose writings of Novalis, 4) Tieck’s notion of the sublime and its relevance for the Romantic journey, and 5) the late Romantic satirization of the journey motif within Eichendorff’s prose. Additionally, the thesis serves to show how philosophical discourse of the Enlightenment had reached something of an impasse in its use of the journey motif, with the subject unable to evolve and renew itself beyond the strictures of particular models of subjective cognition. The Romantics thought literary practice was to supersede philosophy and it was mobility in the form of the journey as both metaphor and process, which helped bring about this transition and created a flexible self-authoring and self- renewing model of the subject. The study also recounts a particular history of Romanticism which charts, via the history of the journey, the movement’s youthful idealism, the fear of the pitfalls of human subjectivity, and its eventual self-distanciation through parody.

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Starnes, Rebekah Ann. "Transnational Transports: Identity, Community, and Place in German-American Narratives from 1750s-1850s." The Ohio State University, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1333727595.

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Meyertholen, Andrea Noel. "Blurring the lines| The invention of abstract in German literature since 1800." Thesis, Indiana University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3620621.

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<p> In December 1911, the public exhibition of Kandinsky's Komposition V shattered the world of Western illusionism as audiences knew and understood it - or so the traditional tale goes. Yet the relative abruptness with which abstraction supposedly shocks the art world not only presents a misleading impression; it in effect creates a great riddle. If the Western art world spent centuries organized under a unifying goal of perfecting imitation, why would it now so suddenly turn its back on its institutional underpinnings by challenging, negating, or exploding the principles it had worked so hard to develop? This project responds by rejecting the presuppositions of the riddle and arguing against the traditional narrative, claiming instead that the invention of abstract art in the 1910s was neither abrupt nor unprecedented, but was already being described, theorized, or created in the 19<sup>th </sup> century, only in literature rather than painting. Through close reading and literary analysis, I present three moments in the German literary canon in which abstract art is imagined or becomes theoretically possible: Heinrich von Kleist's Empfindungen vor Friedrichs Seelandschaft (1810), Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem "Howards Ehrengedächtnis" (1821), and Gottfried Keller's Der grüne Heinrich (1855, 1879). Composing these moments are three different authors who write at three different decades, speak through three different genres, and conceive three different modes of abstraction, none of which contemporaneously achieved painted form. Connecting these moments is the following argument: each constitutes an example of the invention of abstract art in a 19<sup>th</sup>-century literary text prior to the visual actualization of abstract art in the early 20<sup>th</sup> century. With such images in circulation well before 1911, this study features the crucial role of literature in foregrounding the cultural developments essential for abstract artworks to "speak for themselves" in the medium of painting by establishing certain preconditions involving need, spectatorship, and the self-awareness of the artist. Thus by conceptualizing abstract images in their writing, these three 19<sup>th</sup>-century German authors also produce necessary components of the theoretical grounding required for the 20<sup>th</sup>-century birth of abstract art.</p>

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Lawson, Robert. "Role reversal and passing in postwar German and Austrian Jewish literature." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2002. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ65678.pdf.

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Vierra, Sarah Thomsen Jarausch Konrad Hugo. "Representing reality literature, film, and the construction of Turkish-German identity /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,123.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2006.<br>Title from electronic title page (viewed Oct. 10, 2007). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Department of History." Discipline: History; Department/School: History.

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Allingham, Liesl. "Pushing boundaries the female cross-dresser in German literature around 1800 /." [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2007. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3278217.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Germanic Studies, 2007.<br>Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-09, Section: A, page: 3875. Adviser: William Rasch. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 8, 2008).

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